Literature
He was right all along
Michael Bentley reviews The Englightenment that Failed by Jonathon Israel
P is for Plum Pudding
Jonathon Green reviews A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
Brief encounters and romps in the park
George Orwell pursued women with enthusiasm and varying degrees of success
Is Jane Austen getting a bum deal?
As the new Emma comes to cinema screens, Alexander Larman considers the innumerable Austen remakes over the past 25 years
A full stop in Sussex
Lisa Hilton is influenced by a Booker Prize shortlisted novel as she samples gastropub grub
Of mice and writing advice
Tibor Fischer reviews Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk
Riotous tale of a vivid life, superbly lived
Alexander Larman reviews Lady in Waiting: My extraordinary life in the shadow of the crown, by Anne Glenconner
Inside Number 10
Jack Brown showcases hidden heroes, the history of the building and the famous figures who have passed through
Might-have-been books
Do I ever regret the books I might have written? Only fleetingly.
Booker prize chumps
The inside line on the book world
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
The government is failing Northern Ireland
Its reputation will be stained forever by the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
Stopping the devolution ratchet
More devolution will not solve the worst consequences of devolution
The dark threat of nitazenes
New opioids could pose a dramatic risk to British streets
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
